neowin.net

I didn't notice this problem until i installed a pre beta version of windows 7. I don't know if its the media player that comes with it, but ever since then i'd notice that the media player would skip the beginning of most of my songs.
I thought it was some weird audio codec problem, and uninstalled seven and put vista back on.

i still noticed the problem. So for the past week i've been searching for answers, still thinking it was a codec problem.
Then days after not being able to find anything close to what could be happening, I decided to see if the entire song was even sitll there. So copied it to my phone, and surely the first 15 seconds of the song were completely gone, and the mp3 has been clipped. Other mp3's it was only a few seconds.

i talked to some other people here and they said the same thing happened to some of their mp3's after installing windows 7.
Now not all mp3's were effected. I've noticed about 15 so far, but thats only out of the music i listen to regularly. I have thousands of mp3's, so its uncertain how many were cut apart.

All my mp3's were saved onto a slave drive. And werent on the actual windows installation drive.

What in windows seven could do this? or in windows media player 12 that comes with 7?

Nothing ever popped up that i remember asking if it could splice up many of my mp3's and ruin my mp3 library.

It makes no sense that this could happen, but it did. And it only happened to a few of us after we installed pre beta 7, and used the wmp.

Has anyone else noticed this?
Also if you're testing windows 7, i suggest keeping your mp3's on read only or something.

Hasn't happened to me (Windows 7 Build 7000). I use Media Player Classic to play my MP3 files. Maybe it's a problem with WMP?

I noticed the same thing. For me, it cut out around the first 3 -5 seconds of the song. When I looked at the date the mp3's were modified, they all had the same date and modified in a time frame of about two hours. I also thought it was a codec problem, but ruled that out. I now think Windows 7 was the problem, but I think it might be because the music is not on the partition Windows is installed.

****, it WAS Windows 7 that did that? Yeah, its happened to me too, I lost 2-5 of the first few seconds of about half the songs on my computer

yeah i had this problem but didn't know it was specifically windows 7 (as i was messing about at the time <_<). bleh. luckily its only happened to some of my music.

i also realised my most of my tags had disappeared in tag&rename but was still there in wmp odddd

This is exactly the reason why I don't want WMP (and some other players) touching my files. And the new library feature isn't making it easier.

They'd better fix this and soon... I can imagine alot of people getting very angry when they find their MP3 files have been modified without their knowledge or consent just by listening to them in Media Player.

Wow, good thing I went back to XP.. I won't touch any Windows OS Past Server 2003..

Unfortunately, I noticed this too, a good number of my MP3s have been "vandalized"...


-noticed it did it to his purchased music from itunes as well, anger level rising-

This post has been edited by -Hiroshi-: Dec 31 2008, 01:49

I hope this bug gets fixed, and fast. It's clearly a big issue, and it's one that should have been caught before it ever even got close to leaking.

wow, so im not the only one?

Im replacing my mp3 albums now with backups i made a while back . Sadly, i didn't backup any of the music i downloaded in the past year but not all of the albums were damaged, and i can easily just copy them from the actual cd or redownload.

I noticed that many of my mp3's that were cropped or whatever... all the other mp3's in that folder were as well. Example:
I have "green day international superhits". Every mp3' in that albums folder was cropped, and some 15+seconds in.
like my favorite green day song "basket case" . was cropped all the way to the second verse.

It makes me mad, because i didn't know this was possible or would happen, but at the same time i was using a beta product, so i cant really blame Microsoft, but still. Shouldnt ever of happened.

So i suppose for the next few months or year, i'll randomly find songs that were half deleted, and have to replace them on the spot with the original files, but its life.

Heads are going to be rolling within the Windows Media team for this one.

Wow, how can there be such a nasty bug?? Thanks for the heads up, I'll be sure to not touch WMP12 whenever Win 7 is released to beta tester.

Very sorry to hear some of you were bitten by this, hopefully you have back-ups or have the Previous Versions feature enabled.

Unfortunately this is an example of why using leaked builds can be a bad idea...

its good that i didnt listen to any of the songs from windows 7

Brandon, is this fixed in the official beta?